This 4:1 tackle is the most common system on boats under 28 ft (8.5 m). Boats with mainsails to 375 ft 2 (35 m 2) often use a 6:1 system. This 8:1 purchase handles high mainsheet loads on Beachcats up to 20 ft (6 m).
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Powhatan in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612) The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan) are a Native American people in Virginia. It may also refer to a historic leader of those tribes, commonly referred to as Powhatan. It is estimated that there were about 14,000â21,000 Powhatan people in eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607.